May 15, 2011 | Archives, Published LTE's
Regarding Attorney Cutler’s Guest Opinion, “Liberty and the odor of marijuana” (May 8), I would like to point out that cannabis prohibition violates the citizens’ right to liberty. We learned last Thursday night at the Republican Presidential...
May 6, 2011 | Archives, Published LTE's
Persons who value the advantages of liberty and the principles of the constitution of Massachusetts will remember April 19 of 2011, the 236th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord, as a little more special. It was the day that the Supreme Judicial Court...
May 5, 2011 | Archives, Published LTE's
THE HEADLINE of Joan Vennochi’s column, “Pot not a crime, but trade still has victims’’ (Op-ed, April 28), is true, in that possession of small amounts is decriminalized in Massachusetts. However, instead of blaming marijuana users for the violence inherent in a...
May 4, 2011 | Archives, Published LTE's
Regarding Richard Evans’ thoughtful April 29 oped (“100 years of marijuana prohibition”), the drug war is largely a war on marijuana smokers. In 2009, there were 858,405 marijuana arrests in the United States, almost 90 percent for simple possession....
May 3, 2011 | Archives, Published LTE's
In its April 24 editorial, “Court ruling helps protect drug dealers,” The Standard-Times turns the state’s constitutional protections against unreasonable searches and seizures on its head, because some criminals will escape detection. The newspaper...
Apr 29, 2011 | Archives, Published LTE's
Today is the 100th anniversary of Massachusetts’ first law interfering with free commerce in cannabis. It was the first such state law in the nation. The 1911 law required a prescription from a physician. Massachusetts’ medical users would benefit from...
